Personal and Work-Oriented Characteristics Distinguishing Older Nurses' Partial or Complete Actual Retirement Behavior over Three Years.

To retain nurses and prevent worsening the nursing shortage, a key opportunity is to better understand the drivers of complete and partial retirement of older nurses. This study investigates the characteristics that distinguish older nurses' partial and complete actual retirement behavior, from those continuing to work, over a three-year period. A quantitative longitudinal design comprising 217 female Australian nurses aged 50 years or over, from two samples working at Time 1 (2012 and 2016), responding three years later (Time 2).

Analyzing and Validating a Structure for Measuring the Nurse Practice Environment.

Nurse shortages pose a challenge in many countries and retaining existing nursing staff is crucial to addressing these shortages. To inform possible interventions aimed at retaining nurses, managers need a comprehensive understanding of the nature of the nurse practice environment. The scales from two of the main instruments used to assess nurses' practice environments are tested.

Health Need Factors Are the Key Drivers of Hospitalization among the Elderly Living Alone: An Analysis of Longitudinal Data.

Elderly people living alone are a large and growing proportion of the population of many developed economies. The elderly, particularly those living alone, are more likely to be hospitalized overnight, with consequent substantial health and financial costs. A widely used model of health service utilization is augmented with social issues that may specifically delineate some of the issues associated with living alone.

Cumulative Health Drivers of Overnight Hospitalization for Australian Working-Age Adults Living Alone: The Early Warning Potential of Functionality.

There is a need to better understand the drivers of hospital utilization for the large and growing number of adults living alone. The cumulative effect of health drivers can be assessed by initially considering clinically advised information, then considering issues that a general practitioner or the person themselves may know. Logistic regression analyses were conducted on longitudinal data from the Household, Income, and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey with three time points over four years (n = 1019).

The New and Key Roles for Psychological Contract Status and Engagement in Predicting Various Performance Behaviors of Nurses.

The study examines the impact of the psychological contract (PC), including the often-studied PC breach in addition to the novel approach of PC status, as predictors of performance among nurses, mediated by engagement, job satisfaction, and psychological distress. A sample of 177 nurses and midwives from a medium to a large hospital in Australia completed a self-report questionnaire. Structural equation modelling was used to determine associations between the predictors (i.